Flock & ALPR Cameras in McFarland, California
Volunteers have reported 25 automated license plate readers in and around McFarland — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 25 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of McFarland, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 8 of them sit inside McFarland itself.
The rest sit in City of McFarland (14).
3 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near McFarland in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in McFarland
The readers mapped around McFarland break down as 25 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Garzoli Avenue — 5 readers
- Taylor Avenue — 3 readers
- Mast Avenue — 3 readers
- Elmo Highway — 2 readers
- Browning Road — 2 readers
- 1st Street — 2 readers
- Sherwood Avenue — 1 reader
- Perkins Avenue — 1 reader
- Sherwood Avenue Access Ramp — 1 reader
- Zachary Avenue — 1 reader
- Frontage Road — 1 reader
- West Kern Avenue — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around McFarland — all on the live map above.
McFarland CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, McFarland CA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 127 other agencies.
McFarland in the Kern County picture
Kern County has 259 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,066 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 910,433 residents and 20,824 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 39% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 25 traffic.
Camera activity around McFarland, last 30 days
8 newly reported in our hourly change log for McFarland. Latest change logged Aug 21, 2026.
What’s watching McFarland
These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond McFarland — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to McFarland (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around McFarland
- 2 new license plate readers reported around McFarland, CA
- 6 new license plate readers reported around McFarland, CA
- 3 new license plate readers reported around McFarland, CA
- McFarland PD uses Flock cameras to detain Visalia armed robbery suspect
What you can do in McFarland
Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near McFarland
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).